8 Facts Meme

Omigosh, I've been tagged for a meme! I think that's a first (and I almost missed it, I'm so far behind on my blog-reading...).

So anyway.

- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
- At the end of the post, I'm supposed to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

1. I prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate. (You have no idea how many people are horrified at this.)

2. I can't stand being told to do a thing when I was already going to do it anyway. I balk. I do it, but I get cranky. It's entirely irrational but I can't seem to get over it. Call it the last gasp of childhood. :)

3. I have to watch Lady for a Day and Ball of Fire every single time that they're on television. Not sure why. Well, Ball of Fire has Barbara Stanwyck, but Lady for a Day is Capra and I generally don't care for Capra. If only they'd put them on DVD, I could stop doing this.

I have a similar must-watch reaction to The Frozen Dead, but given the plot description ("A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.") I think you'll agree that that's perfectly understandable.

4. I don't like jewelry. I wore my wedding ring somewhat nervously until the now-twelve-year-old was born and it no longer fit, and never got around to having it resized. I figure I know I'm married, that's all that's important.

5. I never wear a watch.

6. I go to great lengths to avoid watching movies based on comic books. I eventually see them because The Husband rents them, but I put it off as long as possible. Some of them are good movies, but none of them really recreate the comic experience. Regardless, I don't generally find the announcement of a new one to be at all exciting.

7. My main non-comic-related hobby is quilting--I've been doing it for about 17 years (I started just before we got married, after I decided I wanted "a" quilt for our bed :)), I have quite a few, and no one in the house uses blankets. (I also like to knit, but can only make rectangles, and I don't find it to be as obsessive a thing.)

8. When I was 10 or 12, I went to climb the treehouse my brother and I had built the summer before and stepped on a hornet's nest. The hornets were not pleased.


You know, I'm supposed to tag people but I'm so far behind that I have no idea who's done it or not. How about this--if you haven't and you want to, go for it. If not, don't.